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  2. Pacinian corpuscle - Wikipedia

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    Pacinian corpuscles are rapidly adapting phasic receptors that detect gross pressure changes and vibrations in the skin. [6] Pacinian corpuscles have a large receptive field on the skin's surface with an especially sensitive center. [7] The corpuscles are especially sensitive to vibrations, which they can sense even centimeters away. [7]

  3. Lamellar bodies - Wikipedia

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    Red arrows indicate secreted lamellar bodies, and green arrows indicate lamellar bodies in the cytoplasm. Scale bar = 200 nm. In cell biology, lamellar bodies (otherwise known as lamellar granules, membrane-coating granules (MCGs), keratinosomes or Odland bodies) are secretory organelles found in type II alveolar cells in the lungs, and in keratinocytes in the skin.

  4. Eimer's organ - Wikipedia

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    The authors published micrographs of the organ and its innervation, depicting Eimer's free-ending fibers as well as the Merkel cell-neurite complexes and the Vater-Pacini corpuscles. Using a histochemical marker for a protein known to be involved in the processing of pain, they were able to label the nerve fibres at the perimeter of the papilla ...

  5. Merkel cell - Wikipedia

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    Mice in which Piezo2 is knocked-out specifically in skin cells, but not sensory neurons, show decreased behavioral responses to gentle touch. [ 10 ] Merkel cells are sometimes considered APUD cells (an older definition, more commonly classified as a part of dispersed neuroendocrine system) because they contain dense core granules, and thus may ...

  6. Mechanoreceptor - Wikipedia

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    The Pacinian corpuscle or Vater-Pacinian corpuscles or Lamellar corpuscles [5] in the skin and fascia detect rapid vibrations of about 200–300 Hz. [3] [6] They also produce transient responses, but have large receptive fields. Free nerve endings detect touch, pressure, stretching, as well as the tickle and itch sensations. Itch sensations are ...

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  9. Cutaneous receptor - Wikipedia

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    Cutaneous receptors are at the ends of afferent neurons. works within the capsule. Ion channels are situated near these networks. In sensory transduction, the afferent nerves transmit through a series of synapses in the central nervous system, first in the spinal cord, the ventrobasal portion of the thalamus, and then on to the somatosensory cortex.